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Thumbnail of the 8/16/17 newsletter (full issue here) Action of the week: Get inspired by Helen Gym: An audio recording of the full teleconference is here, and a blog summary of the discussion is here. Tweet of the week: Get inspired by Helen Gym! PAA Week Day 3 discussion of politics & schools will get you fired up for the work ahead! https://tinyurl.com/y75eza2n PAA News: Last day of PAA Week, internal strategy session. Also, reaching out to survey contest winners

Thumbnail of the 8/9/17 newsletter (full issue here) Action of the week: Get ready for PAA Week! Tweet of the week: Join Parents Across America for a week of action and discussion Aug. 14-17 #PAAWeek http://parentsacrossamerica.org/join-us-during-paa-week/ PAA News: We are very pleased to announce the unanimous election of Zerlina Smith from Chicago and Laura Bowman from Virginia and re-election of Khem Irby to the PAA Board of Directors. We look forward to a dynamic year under their leadership! Great thanks … →

Thumbnail of 7/31/17 issue (full newsletter here) Action of the week: Final day for PAA survey PAA News: Laura Bowman, leader of PAA-Roanoke Valley, came across this good Slate article from January 2017, “Are Young Kids Doing Too Much Homework.” It quotes Laura at length and references PAA’s parent organizing toolkit.

We combine these two issues since both were focused on promoting the PAA national parent survey. Details about the survey are here. The June 28th issue also reported on a demonstration against secretive school closings in Indianapolis in which PAA affiliate Parent Power and Board member Nate Harris and his wife, Carrie Lynne Harris participated. The July 13th issue included a story about the scandalous actions of Stand for Children in Portland, OR, to push out a school board member … →

Thumbnail of the 6/22/17 newsletter (full issue here) Action of the week: Share PAA’s new 1-page fact sheet exposing the truth about Stand for Children Tweet of the week: Parents beware of Stand for Children’s hidden corporate school agenda #SFCwolfinsheepsclothing http://tinyurl.com/y6v66plx PAA News: Watch for PAA’s national parent survey; the link to the survey will be in next week’s newsletter.

Thumbnail of the 6/1/2017 newsletter (full issue here): Action of the week Sign the petition: No spybots in babies’ bedrooms! Read more about Mattel’s planned Aristotle “digital nanny” here. There’s still time to meet with your Congressional reps while they are on break until June 5, or just call or drop by to share PAA’s fact sheet on voucher harm and position paper on real parent choice (hint: it’s not charters or vouchers!). Tweet of the week Please tweet and … →

Thumbnail of the 5/25/2017 newsletter (full issue here): Action of the week Say NO to Trump 2018 education budget! Congress is home on a break – please take a moment to drop in to their home offices and share PAA’s fact sheet on the harm vouchers may do, and our position paper on parents’ REAL choice (hint- it’s not vouchers or charters). Tweet of the week Please tweet and share, or follow @parentsacrossam and retweet! @realdonaldtrump @BetsyDeVosEd yr education budget … →

Thumbnail of the 5/18/2017 newsletter (full issue here): Action of the week Register here for an important webinar introducing the Parent Toolkit for Student Privacy. Co-sponsored by PAA, the webinar takes place Tuesday, May 23 at 8 pm ET. Tweet of the week Please tweet and share, or follow @parentsacrossam and retweet! Protect #studentdataprivacy with free toolkit https://www.studentprivacymatters/toolkit. Join webinar 5/23/17 https://tinyurl.com/ke8gozr Coming up Two great new documentaries highlighting the value of public education are beginning to be screened across … →

Thumbnail of 5/11/17 newsletter (full newsletter here) Action of the week Protest DeVos! Her visits around the US have not been going well. Her comments in Utah led PAA interim executive director to write this letter to the Salt Lake Tribune; get ready to write something similar if DeVos comes to your town. Coming up PAA is co-hosting a webinar on student data privacy on May 23 at 8 pm ET. Details to follow. Tweet of the Week @BetsyDeVosEd wrong … →